Sensory Letter Tubs (optional, nice to have)

Ladybug counting cards

Pancake making materials

Vocabulary flashcards

Montessori learning tower (optional, nice to have)

Cheerios

Sand Tub for finger-tracing letters

Buttons

Glue

Cardstock or otherwise thick paper for button craft

Muffin Tin

Suggested Cutouts

(Make these cutouts for your weekly themed “bulletin board” and other setups for the week. You’ll use these visual aids throughout the week. Find these on the web, print & laminate them and store them when not in use. See activity list for more explanations.)

“Today’s” date and “weather” labels

Pizza

Wheels / tires

Pancake

Moon or Sun

Sunflower

Grapes (if indivudal grapes in picture very circular)

Circles of various sizes (see below)

Etc (however many as you'd like for your bulletin board)

Our Circle Time Sequence

One song or fingerplay to quiet / focus the little one(s)

What is today? (date, weather labels) (For age two this is rather quick as they don't really understand this yet but still nice for routine's sake)

Today's message

Review one letter (usually using the letter tubs, a sandpaper letter, flashcard or similar)

Sensorial

Sensorial Bin 1: Make a button sorting activity with buttons from your sewing kit and a muffin tin. Discuss the shapes and colors of the buttons. Sort by size and shape together. (Supervision required!) See example here.

Theme Shelf: Find everything round from around the house. Bring back out the ring stacker.

Art

Coloring Bin:

Coloring Bin: Print coloring pages with circles. Several examples can be found here.

Craft Bin: After you've done your sorting activity a few times with the buttons, make a button collage with glue. See example here.

Sensory Tub: Cookie cutter tools and playdoh.

Practical Life

Practical Life Bin: Introduce the Montessori Button Dressing Frame.

Cooking: Make pancakes together (highly recommend the Montessori Learning tower for this - it's an investment but great quality and very helpful if you want to help develop an interest in cooking at a young age, which is something I'm working on and hope that Lexi likes it!)

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